Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- US Technical Director at Egenera
- Owner / Author at Virtual Enthusiasm Blog (Self-employed)
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- Sr. Systems Engineer at Egenera
- Senior Systems Engineer at Dell
- Sr. Systems Administrator at Kelsey-Seybold
- Independent Consultant/Contractor at Cretec Solutions (Self-employed)
- Systems Engineer at Texas Guaranteed Student Loan
- Development Engineer at Dell Computers
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Clint Eschberger’s Summary
With experience in both Pre and Post Sales activities, I have direct experience in many areas. I have run the gamut from leading initial presentations, developing Proof of Concept/Prototype environments, leading customer training, developing courseware, and providing post-sales professional services like consulting.
Coming from an IT background I have hands on experience with almost every area of the data center including virtualization, networking, storage, Windows/Linux, logistics, and much more.
Considered an expert in the area of virtualization and run a local users-group on the subject along with a blog that has over 200 readers a day.
Clint Eschberger’s Specialties:
Technical Sales, Technical Leadership, Internal / External Customer Briefings, IT Training, Data Center Logistics, Windows/Linux Server, Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, Server Hardware, Server Virtualization (VMware), SANs, Fiber Switch, Citrix, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Weblogic, Web Administration (IIS, Apache), Web Development (PHP, Perl, MySQL)
Clint Eschberger’s Experience
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US Technical Director
Egenera
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Provide technical coordination in our OEM relationship, working with Engineers, Sales, Marketing and executives to drive the relationship and make sure everyone had what they needed to increase business.
Provide technical insight to Marketing to help create proper messaging for our B2B and customer relationships.
Provide feedback on technical request and requirements for our products to Engineering. -
Owner / Author
Virtual Enthusiasm Blog (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Own and operate the Virtual Enthusiasm Blog at http://blog.cretec-web.com which has gained a large following in less than 3 months. Articles are being syndicated out to several technology sites.
Post articles related to various virtualization technologies. Design best practice documents and track patching and bugs. -
Sr. Systems Engineer
Egenera
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — December 2008 (7 months)
Work as a subject matter expert in virtualization in general, both I/O and hypervisor. Considered a subject matter expert on VMware for the entire for Egenera. Work with Account Executives and on site with potential clients to help them understand how we could help bring Egenera and other virtualization platforms into their environment. Called on to help with Proof of Concept implementations to make that the client gets a great experience. Responsible for helping clients build solid and dynamic architectures for their environment.
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Senior Systems Engineer
Dell
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dell; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Technical lead on VMware in an enterprise environment. This includes planning, forecasting, tracking, and score-carding. Manage one of the largest VMware farms in the world. Work with all business segments to forecast future virtualization and migration from physical servers.. Responsible for engineering solutions based on corporate standards as well as providing 2nd/3rd level support. Train level 1 and 2 support teams globally. Provide on call 3rd level support for IIS, Weblogic, Citrix, in addition to VMware. Report status and forecast to executives as well as recommendations.
Also attend external customer briefings for presenting what we do at Dell and how we can help the customer utilizing Dell services. -
Sr. Systems Administrator
Kelsey-Seybold
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
July 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Work as part of a team to support Windows based servers, AD, Exchange, DNS, Backups, along with other general IT duties. Primary functions include Citrix, VMWare ESX, SAN /Storage solutions, and Fiber switches. Also provide 2nd and 3rd level support to internal customers. Basic project management for small-mid size IT related projects.
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Independent Consultant/Contractor
Cretec Solutions (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 10 months)
Worked with varying number of small business to fill their IT needs. This included setting up networks, firewalls, servers, web sites, email, and phone systems. Also did onsite training for Microsoft Windows, Office, and General IT work.
Developed custom PHP/MySQL based web applications includin portals, inventory, and project management applications.
At the peak I had over 20 clients where I was performing maintenance and new installs. -
Systems Engineer
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 5 months)
Work as a team member to support the Windows and Linux server environment. My main priorities were; IIS, Citrix and VPN, Disaster Recovery to Co-Location, and BEA Weblogic.
Also provided 2nd and 3rd level support in a 7x24x365 environment. -
Development Engineer
Dell Computers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Dell; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1995 — September 2000 (4 years 10 months)
Primary duties are Dell was to develop the testing methodolgy for the Optiplex and PowerEdge line in the Field Service area. This included building testing scripts and logging as well as procedures for quality assurance. Worked with external vendors to verify their work and testing practices. Work as a project lead on several projects for test environment on new models. Worked as a internal instructor for new applications and testing practices. Was a team lead the last two years.
